Ebel as-Saqi
Ebel as-Saqi (إبل السقي) is a municipality in the Marjayoun District in southern Lebanon.In 1875, Victor Guérin found it to be a "considerable" village, with about 1000 inhabitants.On 2 March 1999 the IDF South Lebanon coordinator, Brigadier General Erez Gerstein was killed by a roadside bomb on the road between Ibl as-Saqi and Kaukaba.[2][3] In June 1999, as the South Lebanon Army (SLA) withdrew from Jezzine, retreating SLA members and their families commandeered empty houses in Ebel as-Saqi, Kawkaba and Marjayoun.At the time it was estimated that the SLA had only four hundred men.